Re: Default vim colorscheme?
On Mon, 22 Jun, 2020 at 10:53:46 +0200, Lucio wrote:
> Il 22/06/20 10:05, elvis ha scritto:
> > Somewhere on your system maybe /usr/share/vim or in /etc that default
> > colour scheme is defined or linked to a real colour scheme. Find it.
>
> I couldn't find the link, but I found /usr/share/vim/vim81/colors directory,
> that contains only 19 colorschemes: not that hard to bruteforce after all.
> I've tried all of them one after the other and I finally found "ron" to be
> the real default one, despite "colorscheme default" not loading "ron"...
>
> Why "colorscheme default" doesn't load the real default, or why the real
> default goes by the name of "ron" and "default" is a non-default choice, is
> beyond me: maybe Debian exhausted the symlinks pool, so renaming the
> "default" file as "classic" or something and symlinking "default" to "ron"
> would have broken the whole system, but it doesn't really matter anymore...
> problem solved, thanks for your help.
>
I think what happened is that when you set the default colour scheme
interactively a light background was assumed. That's why you get less
contrast in your second screenshot. If you subsequently do ':set
bg=dark' it should look like the first screenshot.
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